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Title: Moscow Motorcyclist's Crazy High-Speed Commute
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URL Source: http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/high_speed.html
Published: May 7, 2011
Author: Ivan the Biker
Post Date: 2011-05-07 18:04:07 by Flintlock
Keywords: White Line Fever
Views: 7673
Comments: 284
A 25-mile commute through Russian traffic and a powerful two-wheeled samurai sword, and you get a video showing the "quick" way to work. Sometimes this two-wheeler even becomes a one-wheeler as rare empty stretches of road disappear when the nose goes skyward. Hang On !! Poster Comment: This guy is nuts....love it (big screen version at link)
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#5. To: Flintlock (#0)
I ride motorcycles, am a member of the Iron Butt Association (over 1,000 miles in 24 hours) and have cruised for hours at 85-95 on the open, almost vacant, roads of the mid-west. This guy is not long for the world...it's seldom what YOU do that gets you killed...it's almost always something the other driver does that "gets you"...talking on cell phones, fiddeling with the radio, putting on make-up, reading a map...the list goes on and on....ALL these guys die eventually. you tube "ghost rider" if you want to see some 150-190 mph traffic dodging...and yep, I heard he's no longer with us. NOTHING comes close to the feeling of the open road on two wheels...I just like to keep it under 3 digits...but that's just me...I guess I really am getting old.
Yeah. I was watching that video and thinking to myself that all he needed was just one of the people driving a car or truck to lose their concentration for just a few seconds and drift over a foot or two--and then he's a dead man. It's stupid to ride that way in traffic.
I went through Atlanta 2 years ago and all I could think was "what the crap am I doing here!!! Traffic sucks and high speed traffic can be deadly...I just assume they're all out to kill you and drive accordingly.
It looks kinda like he's headed south on the 400 from time to time. Can't really tell...
He's rolling north on 75/85. I have driven through Atlanta a lot (never on a bike though).
Remember this...this was the bike Micheal Parks rode in the TV series, "Then Came Bronson"...they had it on display in Daytona the year I has there...
#131. To: Freedomsnotfree, riders, 4 (#129)
Yeah, I remember that bike. A Sportster and it always sounded good.
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#15. To: Freedomsnotfree (#5)
I ride motorcycles, am a member of the Iron Butt Association (over 1,000 miles in 24 hours) and have cruised for hours at 85-95 on the open, almost vacant, roads of the mid-west. This guy is not long for the world...it's seldom what YOU do that gets you killed...it's almost always something the other driver does that "gets you"...talking on cell phones, fiddeling with the radio, putting on make-up, reading a map...the list goes on and on....
#18. To: James Deffenbach (#15)
#74. To: Freedomsnotfree (#18)
"what the crap am I doing here!!!
#75. To: Southern Style (#74)
#127. To: Lod (#75)
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It looks kinda like he's headed south on the 400 from time to time.
#129. To: James Deffenbach, lod (#127)
Replies to Comment # 129. took me a while, but I finally snapped-to here - enjoy -
#135. To: Freedomsnotfree (#129)
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